This is a list of abbreviations and phrases you may see in the game's chat. The collection has been gathered over the years from various ingame chats, so some of them are outdated, others may have changed in meaning over time.

The guide is mostly aimed towards those of you, who have little experiences with chats. Still other who have gathered many chat experiences surely find some abbreviations or terms useful, since several are purely related to Anarchy Online and other may be used in other games with different meanings.

By no means this list could be considered complete or finished, game & chat language is a living language. New abbreviations are "invented" daily. Keeping up with this (game) language evolution would be nearly impossible for single persons.

add all defensive: Your overall defense rating (including Nano Resistance) is enhanced without boosting the skills itself. AAD is â€œjustâ€ added to the game mechanic calculations for attack rating vs. defense rating to give you higher chance to evade an attack.

AAO

add all offensive: Your attack rating is enhanced without boosting the skills your weapon sets as variables for your attack rating. The AAO influences the amount of damage dealt by your weapon though.
Basicly means you can not twink a weapon with AAO equipment, but increase your damage. Guide on attack rating & damage

Abandoned Facilities

A seldomly used name for the Biomare dungeon in the Longest Road playfield

AC

armor class: 10 AC reduce damage by 1 untill the minimum damage range of the weapon. This effect only influences the damage type the weapon deals, the different damage type armor classes do not cumulate!

ack(!)

Exclamation used to show fear or surprise

add

Means more mobs are starting to attack you/the team than were expected

Ado

Adonis, the fourth playfield in Shadowlands

adv

The Adventurer profession, also called advie or advy

AE

1. Aegean, a playfield on Rubi-Ka 2. Another way of saying AoE

AFAIK

as far as I know

afk

away from keyboard: Basicly the player saying "afk" won't interact with you or the environment.
The "/afk" command can set your character afk for the system with an automatic reply to everyone trying to send you a private message (PM/tell). Also the auto-afk option in your preferences sets your character afk.
On the battlestation the afk flag instantly removes you from the battlestation.

aggro

Aggression a monster directs towards a player. Some items will not work when a player has aggro like treatment kits. Every monster has an "aggro list" which simply determines who the monster attacks directly, during combat this list alters due to damage dealt, taunts or "annoying" actions like heals.

agi

The Agility ability

AH

Athen Hill: The raised area in the middle of Old Athen with a huge tree, a common meeting place

AI

Alien Invasion Expansion: An expansion which adds organisation owned cities, org shops & the GMS on Rubi-Ka as well as combat versus aliens. Note: The GMS is only usable by player who own this expansion!

alpha

A high damage output attack used to open a fight, usually in the form of one or several weapons specials and offensive perks fired off in quick succession.

alt

alternate/alternative: A character you play additionally to your most played character (main) or your highest level character.

AMS

Augmented Mirror Shield: The extension of Soldier's Total Mirror Shield (TMS) nano line available with the Shadowlands Expansion.

AN

The Andromeda playfield on Rubi-Ka

Andre

Andre Bottle: Quest giving NPC at the ICC Shuttleport

anon

anonymous: When a player is flagged as anonymous he/she won't show on the /list command. To use this command type "/anon" in any chat window.

AO

1. Anarchy Online 2. Alpha and Omega: A doctor team healing program

AoE

area of effect: An attack which affects a group of mobs within a certain range of the target. Often Nano-Technician area damage nanos are called AoE nukes, but also means offensive area effects from buffs/auras.

AoRK

Atlas of Rubi-Ka: A 3rd party map with location marker for Rubi-Ka playfields. You'll find this map as download at our map download section, developed and updated by Onack.

AoSL

Atlas of Shadowlands: A 3rd party map with location marker for Shadowland playfields. You'll find this map as download at our map download section, developed and updated by Onack.

APF

Alien Playfields: Special raid zones for players with the Alien Invasion Expansion. You'll find several guides within our Alien Invasion Knowledge. Additionally the way to the Legacy of the Xan (LoX) playfield requires you to pass the boarding area of the APF.

APT

Anti-Person Turret: An immobile turret coming with the Lost Eden Expansion specialized to fight versus other player (not in a mechanical vehicle) in certain playfields like the battlestation.

AR

1. attack rating: A number stated in your Stats Window (Ctrl+9) and used by the system to calculate your chance to hit your target and the damage dealt. The number is the result of your attack skill(s) and your AAO. Basicly: the higher the number the better! Guide on attack rating & damage 2. Assault Rifle: Either the skill or the weapons get called AR.

ARK

Advisors of Rubi-Ka: Player volunteers who are the ingame connection between the player and Gamemaster (GM) by answering petitions. ARKs appear ingame with their names in green.

AS

1. aimed shot: A special attack dealing massive damage in a single shot, often found on rifles and shotguns. 2. The Athen Shire playfield on Rubi-Ka.

AT

1. alien title: Gaining certain numbers of alien experiences (AXP) grants the player alien titles and a perk for each title that can (only) be spend in alien perks. See our Alien Title guide 2. Automatic Targeting: A Soldier nano buffing AAO by a small amount.

Ataxia

The southern heckler spot along the east brink in Adonis past a narrow canyon.

Atlantean

The game's first server, also called RK1.

ATM

at the moment

aura

Area buffs/debuffs which recycle periodically.

AV

the Avalon playfield on Rubi-Ka

Avatar

Your avatar is your character you see on screen, also often called "toon".

AVT

Anti-Vehicle Turret: An immobile turret coming with the Lost Eden Expansion specialized to fight versus mechanical vehicles of other player in certain playfields like the battlestation.

AXP

Alien Experience: A type of XP separate from regular XP or SK for killing aliens. You gain alien titles with them and can spend in the alien perks. See our Alien Title guide

bring a friend: Term used for two rather similar situation a) When a mob aggros and brings another mob along (see add) b) When a team leader asks you to get an additional member for the team, seldomly used these days though.

1. Bronto Burger, a favourite food provider on Rubi-Ka 2. Billboard: The billboards in the cities 3. Blaster Beetle: Long ago an often hunted monster back in the days without Shadowlands

BBB

Blinded Blackbird: A popular submachine gun for fixers and soldiers that drops in Crypt of Home dungeon

BBL

be back later

BE / B&E

Break & Entry: The skill, required for opening locked doors & chests as well as in some crafting processes.

beach

A popular spot for hunting hecklers in Elysium. Located little away from the portal at Port 7.

beam

Support Beam: An Atrox only 2hb weapon, once very popular among Enforcer.

beast

The final boss of the Shadowlands, sometimes also called "fatty"

BF

1. The Belial Forest playfield on Rubi-Ka 2. May also mean "boyfriend"

bfe

bumblef**k Egypt: A humorous name for a really remote and isolated location

big D

A dungeon at Sentinels in Mort, the higher level companion to little d, once a busy leveling location now rarely used

bind

Insurance scanning binds your character to the location where you scanned so you will resurrect there when you die, it also protects all XP gained before. Nowadays most just call it "save".

bio

bio break: To go away from keyboard to go to the bathroom. Indicates only a small interruption.

blackhole

What happens when a nano is cast but then fails without any error messages or effects occurring.

blind

A hostile nano which causes a player's view of the game world to black out for it's duration, blinds also cause the player or monster it's cast upon to miss more.

blitz

To run through a mission quickly, without killing anything, in order to complete the mission and receive the item reward.

BM

The biological metamorphosis nano skill

BoB

Blades of Boltar: Once a popular weapon for martial arts fighting player (not only Martial Artist), nowadays Shen Stick is prefered.

BOHICA

bend over here it comes again: Meaning "we're about to get screwed"

BoP

Bird of Prey: A popular Martial Artist attack.

borg

Cyborg: A popular mob to hunt for XP - especially for free account player.

Bori/Bory

The neutral city of Borealis

bot

1. Robot: commonly referring to Engineer's pets 2. chat bot: A system used on chat channels for raids or other purposes

BP

1. Breastplate: the armor piece which goes in the chest slot 2. backpack

BRB

be right back

BRT

be right there

BS

1. The Broken Shores playfield on Rubi-Ka 2. bulls**t 3. battlestation: A new playfield solely for PvP fights to gain Victory Points. See our Battlestation guide for more info 4. Backstab: A special attack of Shades & Adventurer

BTS

back to start: Often used for hunting outdoors, especially at hecklers

BTW

by the way

buff

Beneficial nanos or items used to increase stats, skills or abilities.

burst

A weapon special which delivers 3 bullets in a single attack, causing up to 3 times the normal damage of your weapon. Amount differs with the amount of bullets that hit your target (game mechanic roll). See our Attack rating & damage guide at the special attacks section for more information.

BwT

Blessed with Thunder: An MA attack

BY

Backyard: on Rubi-Ka these are the small zones with apartment entrances adjoining the training grounds

A nano effect which mesmerizes a mob and makes it stop attacking. The calm effect is usually disabled by an attack or debuff. Synonymous: mezz

camp

1. The act of waiting for a unique mob or NPC to spawn, usually in order to kill it repeatedly for an item with small chance of dropping (camp for an item) 2. To stay in one place killing a particular type of mob repeatedly for experience (XP camping) 3. An area where a certain type of mob spawns in large numbers, for example "Rhinoman camp" 4. A term meaning to sit and log out, the command is â€œ/campâ€. Synonymus: log out

carb

Carbonum armor, a popular tradeskill armor that increases the amount of NCU & Nano. (guide)

1. City Controller: The central device in an AI city, if the CC is decharged by aliens beyond a certain point it must be recharged before the city will fully function again. Also the CC can be charged to high causing random attacks. (guide) 2. crowd control: See entry for crowd control

When something happens multiple times in a row or very quickly. Usually refers to multiple debuffs being used on you. At times "chain healing" is used, means (mostly by a doctor) heal nanos are used instead of debuffs & damage.

chained / chaindeath

When someone dies twice or more in a short period of time, the game mechanic sends the character to the city of the according faction

char

Character, also called toon.

chem

The Chemistry skill

chest

Armor breastplates are sometimes called chests.

CI

Composite Infuses: A Shadowlands nano which casts all 6 Infuses at once with a duration of 4 hours using less NCU than all single infusions

CL

1. The Computer Literacy skill (most common use) 2. crowd limiting: A feature which will limit the number of players that can be present in an indoor playfield, seldomly used. Synonymous: group selector (GS)

clam or clammers

Derogatory name used by Omni or Neutrals for Clan or Clanners

clon

The Clondyke playfield on Rubi-Ka

clone / cloning

Two characters looking very much to exactly alike (either face or visual armor). Also cloning refers to the few options of endgame armor & weapons making everyone look the same.

clr

clear: Typically heard in dungeons or missions to indicate all the mobs have been cleared from the dungeon or level/floor

CM

1. Composite Mochams: A Shadowlands nano which casts all 6 Mochams at once using less NCU than all single mochams 2. In low levels refers to Composite Masteries

1. cooperator assault rifle: A soldier only weapon 2. co-op: An expression used at raids where two or more orgs/bots will cooperate to ensure the success

CoP

Coast of Peace: A playfield used only for AI cities located south of Lush Fields

CoT

1. Coast of Tranquility: A playfield used only for AI cities located south of Clondyke and the western part of Lush Fields 2. Council Of Truth: Part of the AO backstory

countered

When a nano program is successfully executed, but the target manages to avoid the effects. A counter is the result of the game mechanics rolling attack rate of the nano versus nano resistance

crat

The Bureaucrat profession

crat suit

A back slot item available to bureaucrats (and agents in false profession) only which has the appearance of a business suit

creds / crds / crdz

credits: The money in AO

crispies

Crispy Chiroptera: A 1handed edge weapon from the Crypt of Home dungeon

crowd control

The ability for certain classes (Crat, NT & others) to "control" enemy creatures by rooting/slowing/mezzing/scaring them. Generally this is done so that the team can focus on one mob at a time without worry about adds.

CRU

Controller Recompiler Unit: An item found for example in Rubi-Ka missions necessary to recharge a city controller and enable alien attacks (guide)

crunch

A buff that reduces nano cost, most commonly gotten from NTs but MPs have a similar buff usually called "web"

CS

1. Customer Service 2. Clicksaver: a 3rd party utility for AO to make rolling missions and finding the rewards you want easier (available in our tools section)

CSPmap

A replacement game planetmap, but not updated anymore. See AoSL as alternative

CT

Control Tower: The main tower of a a Notum Wars tower site, required before other towers may be placed. When the CT is destroyed the whole base falls (Land control guide)

A certain type of player distinguished by a tendancy to use short curt sentances, type all in caps and generally behave in an obnoxious way (example: "CREDS PLZ!!! WTF?!")

damage team

A team with very little or no healing/calming support, relying strictly on high damage output to survive. In raids such a team is also called kill team (KT), the raid leader often is part of the KT to have a look at the loot first and avoid ninja looting

DAV

The Deep Artery Valley playfield on Rubi-Ka

DD

1. Direct Damage: Nano's or Items that do damage directly to the target. 2. damage dealing: Self-explaining I guess. Also items increasing damage are called DD items 3. damage dealer: Player of classes whose main aim is to kill the opponent without having to support the rest of the team.

death loop

When you die within a certain time and the game mechanics teleport you to the city of your alignment assuming you are at a too dangerous place. Synonymous: chained.

debuff

Nano programs or items used to decrease stats or abilities.

deck

1. Cyberdeck: A nanotech-only item that boosts nanoskills, allows the use of certain programs but blocks access to conventional weapons 2. The slots you can put NCU chips and the belt in. See our Classic AO NCU Guide for basic information.

delta

The amount of increase per "tick" to the health or nano pool, the speed of regeneration is determined by the amount of psychic skill for nano pool and stamina for hit points. The amount of both is determined by Body Development. Commonly used as heal delta or nano delta.

Die Neue Welt

The game's German server, also called RK3. Current plans appear to want to shut down this server.

Die Kleine Nadel: A piercing weapon most often used by Shades but also Enforcer

dmg

damage

doc

The Doctor profession

Doh(!!)

An exclamation popularized by the TV show The Simpsons meaning something has gone wrong

DoT

1. Damage Over Time: Usually relating to Nano's or Items that do not cause direct damage but instead they steadily do damage over a given time 2. Defender of the Three: A boss mob in Temple of Three Winds

Dovve's

An once popular map upgrade that now comes with the game

DPM

damage per minute: Also DPS meaning damage per second, a way to compare character layouts, nanos or just weapons. Some 3rd party programs can parse the DPM

Nanos that take temporarily skill or health away from the target and transfer it to the attacker, mostly refereed to Trader nanos (ransack, deprive, divest, plunder), but other professions also have health drains

Omni Supply Master Eel in Avalon: An unique mob killed for armor he drops and also part of several quests

EFP

The Eastern Fouls Plains playfield on Rubi-Ka

elite

Omni Pol Elite Armor: Black type armor

ELLTS

Extreme Low Light Targeting Scope: An item popular for high level PvP that no longer drops in-game and so is very valuable and prized. It increases critical hit chances, but inflicts a penalty to initiatives. The lesser version is called LLTS

1. Full Auto: A weapon special which empties the gun's full clip of bullets into the target 2. The fast attack melee weapon skill 3. The first aid skill

FAAK

Fall/Falling/Fallen Asleep At Keyboard

faction

1. A system of points which are acquired or lost by killing aligned mobs found in Shadowlands. Guardian Faction, one faction type you can gain, is needed by everyone progressing through the Shadowlands. You can see your faction by typing /open faction. 2. Clan and Omni-Tek, in few cases also Neutral are called faction

farming

Doing something simple and repetitive with little risk to gain something, for example doing easy missions for tokens or killing friends over and over to get a PvP title

FBR

Frost-bound Reaper: A popular 2 handed edge weapon from the Inner Sanctum

FC

Funcom

FFA

free for all: Used in a team or raid meaning loot goes to whoever grabs it first.

FFoK

Four Fists of Kali, a self-only MA buff that raises the MA skill +140

FFS

for f**kings sake

FG

1. Feline Grace: An often asked for agent's buff that raises agility 2. Fixer grid: Only fixer can give access to this special grid, it has more exits and is often prefered for reaching remote areas (without own normal grid exit/entrance)

FoL

The MA attack Flower of Life

foreman's

The more common name for the Biomare dungeon in the Longest Road playfield

FOTM

flavor of the month: Refers to the tendency among players to adopt the latest uber weapon type rather than choosing a single weapon type to stick with throughout their career

FP

False Profession: An agent nano that while running allows the agent to use some nanos of other professions (example: "I'm going FP trader for a wrangle")

FPS

Frames Per Second: In 3D games the more FPS the smoother the motion appears, the more the better

Grid Armor: A type of armor that fixers can summon and use which boosts their ability to evade attacks , so far there are 5 versions of grid armor ingame. Please see our Grid Armor guide for more information.

gank

1. Attacking and killing a player far below one's level who has little or no chance of fighting back, although a legitimate tactic in mass combat, when done off the battlefield it is generally regarded as a cowardly and dishonorable act 2. To attack a player of same or higher level suddenly and unexpectedly doing enough damage before they realize what is happening to decide the outcome.

garden

Places in the Shadowlands where you can save, buy some equipment and offering travels between the gardens & fixed points in the Shadowlands. Please find additional information in our SL travelling guide, the according garden key guide can be found in the quest section of our SL Knowledge

GC

The Galway County playfield on Rubi-Ka

GCB

Guardian Circuit Board: A 5-slot NCU belt easily equipable at low levels dropped from Guardian of Tomorrow in the Temple of Three Winds.

Character that is weak for the level or acts like having no clue about his class. Generally not a nice thing to call others, please try to avoid it!

gj

good job: A nice thing to tell a team mate when they do well

GM

Usually means Game Master, origin as far as I recall is Genetic Manipulator, basicly persons who are employed by Funcom. GMs are the following part of the voluntary game support (ARK) with the abilities to influence the live game.

Is a place where all cities and lands are connected offering a fast way of travelling between fixed points on Rubi-Ka. There is usually a access point to the "Grid" in Large cities.

grid balls

Personal Grid Converter (PGC) are sometimes called this because of their icon resembles of a cluster of interconnected balls

phats or phatz

Short for "phat loot", phat is a leet spelling of "fat" meaning valuable, loot may sometimes be spelled "lewt". If someone offers to take you to get some "phat lewt" it's a good thing

GS

1. Galway Shire 2. Group Selector: Certain playfields (such as static dungeons, stores, etc) have a maximum number of players allowed in them at once. When that number is exceeded, a duplicate playfield is created to allow more people. These duplicate playfields are differentiated by group selector numbers. So if a bunch of your guildmates are heading for Smuggler's Den and you see them start saying "GS4 everyone", it means you should make sure you're in group selector 4. You can check what GS you're in by hitting shift-F9.

GSF

Gridspace Freedom: The top RK fixer run buff which raises the run speed skill by 720 points as well as boosting evades a bit

Means either "good to go" (ready) or "got to go" which can be quite confusing sometimes, for example: "Are we gtg? No, sorry, I've gtg"

GUI

Graphical User Interface: A general computing term which ingame refers to the parts of the game window the players use to control their play, such as the map window, action bar, etc. Please see our Basic GUI guide.

A sub-genre of RPG games or a playing style, in which the objective is to kill, kill, kill with your swords, knifes, maces etc. This is often used derogatory about games that lack story or features to make role-playing interesting.

HE

Humidity Extractor: A line of NT buffs that restores a part of your nano pool in certain intervals.

heal delta

The amount of increase per "tick" to the hit point pool, the speed of regeneration is determined by the amount of stamina. Please look at Breed statistics guide for more information on the ticks.

Health Buff

Commonly refers to the doctor team max health buff line or Enforcer essence line.

heck

1. Large stone mobs that inhabit the brink areas of Shadowlands, also called hecks or hexx or heckler. 2. Exclamation used to show surprise or disbelieve

HHAB / HH@B

Hold Hell at Bay: A ring required to survive in the Pandemonium zone, also provides a large amount of Nano Resist. How to gain this ring is described in our Hold Hell at Bay Ring Quest guide.

1. Iron Circle: A doctor buff that boosts stamina and strength by 20 points 2. In Character: A term for acting with his character in roleplaying manner

ICC

Interstellar Confederation of Corporations: A part of the back story of the game, more commonly used to refer to the part of the whompa system that connects the 3 factions and a fast way to the Alien Playfield

ID

Only heard this term while talking about nano crystals, ID means instruction disc, a disc which defines the crafted nano crystal. Nano craft guide

Killing in transit: Act of attacking a monster and then moving out of it's reach to avoid damage, then attacking again, and so forth, often done by NTs casting area nukes to kill numerous mobs at once. In PvP fights ranged characters also often kite melee fighter, less often used to "wait" for special attack & perk recharges while taking less damage.

kitty

Adventurer's Grinning Hunter Sabertooth morph

KOS

Kill On Sight: This is a term used to define your standing with another creature. If you are severely disliked by a faction, NPC or monster you are probably attacked when you get too near. Seldomly used to order a team or group to start attacking as soon as a monster is pulled around a corner or through a door.

KS

Kill Steal: This is the act of taking a kill from another player that has already initiated combat (Very much looked down on). Note: In AO the player / team with highest damage gains loot rights, not the initial attacker.

kthxbye

"OK, thanks, bye": Once intended in a joking way, lately often used due to the lack of intention to type.

1. When Trader's "ladder" their drains it means to cast one drain which gives them enough skills to cast a higher drain and so on. 2. To equip intermediate implants to increase an ability or treatment for reaching the requirements of higher implants. This is also called "step implanting".

lag

When the game stalls, stutters, jerks or slows down for whatever reason.

lag monster

1. a humorous name for lag 2. adventurer's Pit Lizard form is sometimes called this because of it's tendency to cause lag

layers

A buff that absorbs a certain amount of a certain or all damage type, the original is buffable by NTs and Enfos, but other professions have comparable

Gaining XP without being active, i.e. afk in a dungeon while the team kills.

Leet

1. Elite: A well connected high level player group / organisation 2. The name of an adorable little two-legged mob which anyone who has played the game has no doubt encountered. Rumor says Leets invented the famous Leet Speak.

Leet speak

A style of chat using intentional misspellings and substituting numbers for letters, taken to extremes it can be almost unreadable (Example: VV|-|@+ |)0 j00 |v|3@n j00 |

lefts

Meaning to follow along the left wall of a mission as a way of helping the team stay together

legos

Deathless Legionnaires: Skeletal mobs in the Temple of Three Winds which drop Frost Scythe of the Legionnaire

leveling

When you get enough XP, you will reach a new level. This gives you certain advantages, like more IP to spend on skills.

LF

The Lush Fields playfield on Rubi-Ka

LFM

looking for more: A team that is looking for more members.

LFT

looking for team: A player who is looking for other to team with.

LHR

Lush Hills Resort: A small city in the Lush Fields playfield on Rubi-Ka. Popular mission area in the mid-levels as well as party location.

little d

A dungeon at Sentinels in Mort, the lower level companion to big d. Once a busy leveling location now rarely used

LLTS

Low Light Targeting Scope, an item popular for high level PvP that no longer drops in-game and so is very valuable and prized. It increases critical hit chances, but inflicts a penalty to initiatives, improved version is ELLTS for Extreme Low Light Targeting Scope

Ljotur

Ljotur the Lunatic, minor raid mob in Deep Artery Valley

LMAO

laughing my ass off

LOL

laughing out loud

LOS

line of sight: When nothing blocks your sight on something or someone. Opposite: out of sight (OOS)

LotV

Lord of the Void: A large and very powerful multi-headed dragon mobs found in some of the Shadowlands playfields

Maximum Beneficial Skill: Maximum skill + alladdoff that increases damage, after the MBS only chance to hit is affected not damage. Usually the MBS is stated in the info window of a weapon. For more information on MBS and damage please visit our damage guide

MC

Matter Creations: A nano skill

MCS

Mausser Chemical Streamer: Once a submachine gun popular with fixers created by converting a Mausser Particle Streamer with tradeskills to chemical damage

MD

The Mutant Domain playfield on Rubi-Ka

ME

The Mechanical Engineering skill

meep

Fast evacuation to avoid death, usually only Fixer are able to meep with their fast grid nanos

A defensive tank, a class who can absorb massive damage and whose role it is to pull aggro away from casters and other weaker team members. In AO the enforcer is the primary defensive tank profession

Medsuit, Treatment suit, Treatment gear

A set of treatment-raising items used for installing implants, mostly centered on a set of Omni-Med clothing.

Mercs

Mercenaries: A group of high level unique mobs lead by Ian Warr which are periodically spawned at the Primus Camp in Eastern Fouls Plains. Place holders must be killed in order to spawn an NPC named Otacustes (a.k.a. Ota) who is given a letter obtained through a short quest and will in turn spawn the Mercs. A detailed guide is available too.

Merlin Armor

Collectively refers to a type of armor found in Inferno, so called because it mentions "Merlin" in the description (Examples: Moon Watcher Helmet, Vest of Torpid Sunrays)

mezz

Mesmerise: The ability to stop a mob fron attacking by putting it into a trance, when the mob is attacked the mezz is broken. See also â€žcalmâ€œ

mezz pet

A type of pet available to MPs calming NPCs

Miir

A fashion lable & clothing store on Rubi-Ka

MM

The Matter Metamorphosis nano skill

MMD

Meetmedere: Once a popular hangout for gankers due to the fact players must cross a PvP zone to use the grid entrance. Now mostly a place to meet for hunting Cyborgs (little & big d)

mob

Short for mobile object, a programmer's term that refers to roaming monsters and NPC's.

mocham

A series of Meta Physicist buffs that raise nano skills. Also often called "mooch(ie)s"

mod

1.) Moderator: The people that controls boards. Answers questions when they can, make sure we behave nicely on these boards. Modification: Mostly refers to changing the look of the GUI. Less often mod is used for weapon or armor modifications.

Mooch(ie)

Mocham: Meta Physicist buffs that raise nano skills

MoP, MoD & MoR

Mark of Peril, Mark of Danger, Mark of Risk. critical hit buffs that Martial Artists can cast on others.

Mord

Lord Mordeth: The unredeemed boss in Inferno killed for high level faction

morph

An effect which changes the visible shape of the player's avatar (into an animal for instance), usually also buffing the character in some way. Adventurers are the primary morphing profession in AO

MP

The Meta-Physicist profession

MPS

Mausser Particle Streamer: A so-so submachine gun which can be converted into a better weapon popular with fixers called a Mausser Chemical Streamer

Mistell: means the previous message was sent to the wrong chat channel by mistake. Also used for mission terminals. (Meet by MT)

mud

1. Mudurlugu: A trader only shotgun found in Shadowlands 2. Multi-User Dungeon

mule

Using a specialized character within a certain area to help out one of your other characters. While some use a mule to for example craftitems, usually a mule plays the same role than the animal, carrying items you want to store or for transfering items between your characters

Mostly used in Shadowlands to refer to mobs similar to dyna bosses on RK. Named mobs are significant in that they drop pocket boss patterns and other desirable loot. Some named mobs have an actually name like "Joe" others just have a special title, like "Unhygienic Rafter"

nano

1. The AO equivelent to mana, sort of a fuel for using nano formulas which much be frequently replinished 2. Nano formulas or crystals are often refered to simply as nanos 3. The Nanomage race

nanocost modifier

The percentage reduction of the nanocost for execution of nanoprograms. The maximum nanocost reduction recognised by the game is based on your breed.

nano crystal

An uninstalled nano formular

nano delta

The amount of increase per "tick" to the nano pool, the speed of regeneration is determined by the amount of psychic skill

nano formula

The AO equivelent to spells, nano formulas are purchased or found in the enviroment in the form of nano crystals and instruction disks which must be installed and in case of instruction disk crafted before use

Nas

Nascense: The lowest level playfield in Shadowlands

Neut

Name used for the Neutral (faction).

nav

1. Navigation: The category of skills 2. Short form of Map Navigation skill

NCU

Nano Containment Unit. Defines the number of friendly nano programs (buffs) your character can have at any given time. NCU chips equipted in your deck slots increase the total NCU space. For more information about NCUs please visit our Classic NCU guide

Neleb's

The Steps of Madness dungeon: So called because the boss mob there is named Neleb. Also the Neleb's Notum Battlerod & Nano-circuit Robe often just get called Neleb's

nerf

When Funcom makes something less powerful (If they should reduce how much damage a weapon deals, that weapon is nerfed). Sometimes also used by players facing a really hard encounter

Newbie

A new player to the game, considered a friendly term

NF

Short term for nano formula, the AO equivelent of spells

ninja / ninja looter

Someone who is selfish with team loot/keeps the best stuff. A very bad and antisocial behaviour

NL

The Newland playfield on Rubi-Ka

NLC

The Newland City playfield on Rubi-Ka

NLD

The Newland Desert playfield on Rubi-Ka

NM

1. nevermind 2. The Nanomage breed

NN

1. north north: Name used to describe the northernmost heckler spot along the east brink in Adonis 2. Nano Nanny: A utility for planning implants 3. nite nite: goodnight

nodrop

A type of item that cannot be traded or sold

noob

Comparable to "newbie", but a somewhat insulting term

NP

1. no problem 2. The nanoprogramming skill: An important skill used for assembling implants

NPC

Non-Player Character: A character in the game that is not controlled by a player. NPCs differ from "mobs" in not being usually hunted for XP but rather function as vendors, guards, part of a quest or to serve some other purpose

NS

Neuronal Stimulator: NT buff giving 20 Intelligence & Psychic

NSD

Nano Shutdown: A MP nano that debuffs all nano skills by -2000 for a short time.

NT

The Nano Technician profession

nuke

A damage nano, usually direct damage, but can also be used to refer to AoE damage nanos.

Outside Buffs: Often needed to equip items requiring more of one or more skill(s) than you could get yourself

OE

Overequip: When you wear an item that requires alot more in one or more skills than you have by yourself. In case of weapons and ACs of armor the efficiency may drop in 25% steps.

OF

The Omni Forest playfield on Rubi-Ka

ofc

of course

OHQ

The Omni-1 HQ playfield on Rubi-Ka

ohw

on his/her way

OIC

oh I see: Meaning "I didn't understand before, but now I do"

OMFG

like OMG, but with more emotion if you get my point

OMG

oh my god: An exclamation meaning something really good or bad just happened

OMHH

one more hit healing: Small Soldier healing nano

ommer

Name sometimes used by Clan and Neutral for Omni

OMW

on my way

ono

oh no!

OOC

1. The faction channels. When you are in an area aligned to a faction you can communicate with all other player who are in an area of the same alignment, for example Borealis & Newland. When you are in an area not aligned to a faction you can only communicate with the player of the same faction who are in the same playfield. If I recall right, the abbreviation OOC means Open Orbital Channel - I might be wrong at that though. 2. Out Of Character: Saying or doing something that is not roleplay. Mostly used by roleplayers, as they sometimes need to say something that relates to the real world or have to explain why their character does something.

OOP

out of power: A term used by healers to indicate they are out of nano and the team should pause for recharge.

OOS

out of sight: When a person, object or monster is behind a barrier, for example a door or wall. In case of a fight you can not attack the person or monster unless you create a line of sight (LOS).

OP

1. overpowered 2. original poster (forum related)

opi

The opifex breed

org

Short for organisation

OS

Offensive Steamroller: A soldier initiative buff

OSB

Outside Buffs: Buffs cast on you by others

OST

Outside Tank: A high level tank character outside the team, used for power leveling low characters

OT

1. The Omni-Tek corporation, also used as name for the faction 2. The Omni-1 Trade playfield

OTAF

Omni Armed Forces: Name of a special (historical) devision of Omni-Tek, also used for a special armor line with the prefix

Ota

Otacustes: A NPC which is part of the process of spawning the mercs, see entry for Mercs

Personal Notum Harvester: The top end NT buff which replenishes the nano pool, also used for the lower versions of the NT buff

POI

Point of interest

pool

1. The pool in Adonis is an underwater area you must pass through to reach the interior of the zone 2. A holding area where unsaved xp goes when you die. The "pooled XP" are additionally given back in parts when you gain XP

PoP

1. Pain of Patricia: A pistol which drops at Mercenaries 2. pop: When a mob suddenly spawns nearby creating a potentially dangerous situation

ppl

people

PPPE

Programmed Photon Particle Emitter: 1. Usually refers to "shape soft" or "shape hard" PPPEs; rare items which may be converted into MRR tools used in armor production 2. Also an intermediate stage in the tradeskill creation of a nano crystal

primus camp

The location in Eastern Foul Plains where the raid mobs known as the Mercs are spawned, see entry for mercs

proc

A programmer's term, short for process. Meaning to produce an effect of some sort at random intervals, for instance a weapon that randomly produces a stun every now and then can be said to "proc a stun"

PSD

Problem Solving/Seeking Device: Buffing NCU memory chips

PST

Please send tell: Requesting for a private message

psy

The Psychic ability

psycho

The Psychology skill

PT

The Pharmacological Technology skill

pulling

Gaining attention of a creature, in order to make it move towards you without adds. Often used in groups. One person is the "puller", and he/her pulls the monster in the direction of the group, who waits (around the corner) to kill the monster.

puppy

Often referring to the Guardian of Tomorrow, a large robotic dog mob in Temple of Three Winds. Some also call their pets puppy

PvM/PvE

Player versus Monster/Environment. This is when you fight NPC mobs.

PvP

Player versus Player combat.

PW

The Perpetual Wastelands playfield on Rubi-Ka

pwn

Own: A common misspelling which has become a deliberate part of gamespeak, meaning to dominate an opponent

Ready: Generally used when you are done buffing and ready to start fighting/enter boss room etc.

r u

are you

r2r

room to room: Means the team are done pulling mobs into the first mission room, and are ready to proceed from room to room

raid

1. A large multi-team effort to take down a difficult unique mob 2. An attack on a tower site

raidbot

Special chat bot set up to handle the chat needs of large multi-team raids

rawk

Rock: When something "rocks" it means it's cool and exciting

rawr

roar: Like what a lion does, a boastful exclamation

RB

The Rome Blue playfield on Rubi-Ka

RBB/RBA/RBS

Rome Blue Basic/Advanced/Superior store

RBP

Robust Backpack: A rare and expensive backpack most notable in that it adds +60 to several damage types

RCL

Revolving Cold Laser (not used anymore as far as I know)

registrar

A type of ARK who records character marriages in the game

req

Requirement: Most items in AO have a requirement of a certain minimum skill level to be equipped

respawn

After a mob is killed it will respawn, or reappear, again after a certian amount of time at it's designated spawn point. Respawning also occurs after the mobs have been cleared from a dungeon or outdoor hunting area

Rezz (effects)

Cursed term for waiting for stats to return to normal after being ressurected (respawning at reclaim)

RG

The Rome Green playfield on Rubi-Ka

RGB/RGA/RGS

Rome Green Basic/Advanced/Superior store

RI

Reduce Inertia: An MA evades buff raising all 3 evades +120

rights

Meaning to follow along the right wall of a mission as a way of helping the team stay together

Rimor

The game's second server, also called RK2

RK1

Rubi-Ka 1: The game's first server, known as Atlantean

RK2

Rubi-Ka 2: The game's second server, known as Rimor

RK3

Rubi-Ka 3: The game's German server, known as Die Neue Welt

RL

1. real life: What happens when you're not playing AO 2. raid leader: Raids generally go better when a leader is appointed who gives out orders

RM

Real Mean: The most powerful and high level human mobs on RK usually have this in their names

ROF

rate of fire: The speed at which a weapon fires

ROFL

rolling on floor laughing

ROFLMAO

rolling on floor laughing my ass off

root

A nanoprogram that roots the target in place for a period of time, the target may still fight and be attacked while rooted

RoP

Reign of Patricia: An Adventurer only pistol that drops at Mercs, counterpart of PoP

roxxor

rocks: Leet speak often meaning to dominate someone in combat

RP

roleplay: Being in character in a game

RPG

role playing game: A game where the player assumes the identity of a named character which is defined by various stats which may be developed over the course of the game

A number of items which increase the critical hit chance for the Hud 3 slot. Scoping is the term used to describe tinkering with scope QL and inits to optimize one's weapon performance through the use of one of the aforementioned scopes.

Shadow Knowledge: After level 200 players can no longer get XP, instead they receive SK which functions the same as XP but may only be obtained in Shadowlands and by special encounter and quests on RK

SI

The Sensory Improvement & Modification nano skill

SL

1. Shadowlands: A major expansion which added playfields set in a mystical world of floating land masses along with many new features 2. Slayer: A slayer droid, high level engineer pets. Very nasty in team missions, very hard to calm/mez.

SMG

1. A submachine gun or the skill of the same name 2. Syndicate Messenger Gun, a high level fixer-only submachine gun found in Shadowlands

smug

Clan Supply Master in Wailing Wastes: A unique mob killed for armor he drops and also part of several quests

smurf

A fixer in grid armor, so called because the armor's head to toe blue appearence makes the wearer resemble a cartoon Smurf

SNAFU

Situation Normal: All F**ked Up

Snare

A nanoprogram that reduces its target's runspeed for a period of time.

So8

Servants of Eight: Its a type of MA armour

SoC

Sword of Curiosity: An 1he weapon, lower QL version of the Sword of Wonder

Social

Used to describe creatures that help out each other. i.e. if you attack a rhino beater and another rhino is around, then that second rhino will attack you also, because rhinomen are social.

SooL

s**t out of luck

sol

The Soldier profession, seldomly solitus breed

soli

The Solitus breed

SoW

Sword of Wonder: A desirable 1he weapon found in Inferno

soz

Means "I'm sorry"

spam

To recast a nano repeatedly, post something repeatedly to chat, or in general do anything repeatedly

1. south south: Describes the heckler spot just north of Ataxia in Adonis 2. south spot: Describes the heckler spot in the southwest of Adonis 3. Senior Subjugator: Second "Vortex" boss in Pandemonium, kill him opening portal to 3th island 4. Superior Sentinel armor

sta

1. The Stamina ability 2. Spirit Tech Apparatus, a part used in the making of perennium weapons, sometimes called a "barrel" since it produces the barrel of the weapon

stacking

A technique used by teams with bureaucrats to maximize the advantage of the crat's short term xp buffs. The team will damage 1 mob until it is near death and stop attacking will go on to the next one, when there are two or more mobs down to almost no health the crat will use the short term XP buff and the team will proceed to kill the mobs gaining a massive amount of XP, this can be tricky and fairly dangerous to do

Step Implants

Implants that raise a specific stat or skill that are worn for the purpose of installing better implants in other locations, installing maps or NCU equipment, or wearing high QL armor. Step implants are removed and replaced with normal skill implants after you've equipped whatever. Popular step implant sets are for psychic, stamina, comp lit, treatment, and map nav.

STFU

shut the f**k up

str

The strength ability

sup

A friendly greeting, dervived from "what's up?"

Support Class

Used to refer to a profession that may help a team in a variety of ways, and is not focused on one specific task such as healing or doing damage. Examples of a support class are Bureaucrat, Engineer and Meta-Physicist.

A tank has enough health and defensive options paired with aggro catching utilities. The most common tanks are Enforcer and Soldiers, but other classes can be tanks as well. The original meatshield a.k.a. tank is the Enforcer though.

1. The processes by which players may create items in games, usually by combining various parts together 2. Refers collectively to the skills used in the creation of tradeskill items

Training

Attacking a powerful social mob, then running to a group of players attacking other social mobs so that the powerful mob you attacked attacks and kills other players. (Really frowned upon. Don't do this!)

TG

1. training ground: The area new characters start in 2. Trade Grid Terminal

To throw massive numbers of people at a target with little thought to strategy or planning, hopefully doing enough fast damage to take it down before it kills everyone. From the strategy game Starcraft, where mass attacks of small expendable creatures named zerglings was a common tactic